Shading

To explore the effects of shading, let’s look at one section of the Bridgewater Canal, Manchester.

This is a relatively large canal, but with few buildings in the surrounding area (Cornbrook). As a former industrial area, there is development potential.

Bartholomew map of Cornbrook (1900). Source

Here is the canal today, and nearby building geometries.

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Explore the effects of adding shading to water temperature (test).

Also run with rc_17, rc_9

How has adding shading to the environment influenced the water temperature?

Here we have the net change in air temperature, associated with water only (reference material excluded).

0 is the unshaded model

Then we add the actual shading for bc_277 (minimal effect)

We also re-run using the shading parameters for a nearby canal section on the Rochdale Canal (rc_9), which is a proxy for the shading that could occur if this area was extensively developed

We also run with the (unrealistic) full shading (canal entirely shaded)